Double post, because "recent posts" feature.
We had a discussion in chat about the hints in the exchange in the above post, during which it became clear to me that there are multiple plausible interpretations of these hints. To wit:
Interpretation I
- This is a pair of unfound skills
- One is "one of the oldest undiscovered skills", i.e. pre-Survivors
- One is an undiscovered Survivors quest skill
- They are mirror images of each other in the way that LF/FT are mirror images
Interpretation II
- There is a pair of unfound skills
- Both skills in the pair are pre-Survivors content
- This pair of skills somehow involves mirror images and Leaping Flame/Fire Trained
- IIA The pair of skills is a mirror image of LF/FT
- IIB Both skills in the pair are mirror images of each other, similar to the way LF/FT are mirror images
Interpretation III
- There is a pair of skills
- The pair involves doing something sort of terrible
- This pair is, in fact, Lord of Nightmares/Slave to Nightmares, and Kinak forgot that we already knew about them, and that they are both Survivor-era skills
- There is nothing more to follow up with this hint, although maybe Kinak let something slip in the clarifications
Bonus Question
If interpretation III is wrong, do any of the unfound skills being hinted at in Interpretation I or II involve using something suboptimal and unloved, but not set-yourself-on-fire terrible, or, as he suggested he might be, was Kinak thinking of some unrelated unfound skill(s) when he said that?
Super Special Going-For-Broke Bonus Question
Are any of the unfound skills being hinted at here the "so hidden it's almost an Easter egg" one?
For what it's worth, I lean towards Interpretation I. (And, if it turns out that's the right interpretation, my money is on shaman staff and/or one of its derivatives as the source of the pre-survivors skill, and something like serpent's staff as the source of the Survivors one.) Obviously, though, I'm not all that confident in my reading of the clues, hence this post.
